The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-19
LAKE BLUFF.
The Kind of Sum mer Resort It Is, People Who
Go There, and What They Say and DO.


Go There. and What They Say and Do
Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal.
LAKE BLUFF, July 16--If You want to
get away from dust and noise. come to
Lake Bluff. It is not much OF place,
but what there is of it is frst-class of its kind.
1t consists OF about two hundred acres Of sterile
clay land on high bank on the western shore
OF Lake Michigan. thirty miles north of Chicago,
mostly in its native wildness. overgrown by
scrub oaks and undergrown by ferns and weeds;
extending from the railroad to the lake, half
mile or more There is good hotel we'll kept,
at large prices. and some twent thirty comfort
able cottages. scattered promscuouslv through
the woods, little more compact in the vi
entity of large pavilion. which is we'll seatsd and
well-lighted of nights, holding 1000 people You
presumed to come for retirement medita-
ton and rest, all Of which abound here You
can battle. If you want to, or you sit solitary
and alone. in pleasant summer-house on the
bluff, overlooking the lake, or you can sit on
log, You can lie around loose. and read the
papers. or three times a day you can go to the
pavilion and hear something. whether to
your ed1fcation or not. depends your frame OF
mind This is tho Mecca of tho fanatics. Its
primary purpose is to strengthen the faith of
third partyism. but it takes in several sida-
shows. either because they are legitimate. to
afford variety or both. Here the great lights of
the Prohibition party come and deliver great
speeches We have had ST. John and other
men Of national fame. as transient visitors,
while we have Jutkins and Baine and Miss Will
lard and others always with As there
others than the faithful tenting the
casion affords a sort of normal institute, kind
of mental aid occasion, in which each repeats
his best speech to the others and all grow in
grace and increase in knowledge They seem 20
enjoy it very much. for there is very little
struggling during services at the
pavilion" day or night Even the stran ger
within the gates goes there. for he has DO place
else to 60, and it is relief to hear the old
anecdotes and arguments for they always
the audience of hundred SO if they were
brand new and made for the occasion.
This week we have been treated to side-shows
of more than average interest. Wednesday was
Kn lights of Labor day and yesterday woman
su ffrage day. To characterize the latter in q
few words, it is enough to say that the senti-
ments uttered were at least harmless, but not
of the utterances OF the day before. The orator
was Rev. Isaiah Villars. d. D., the recently
elected president of Mckendree College, at
Lebanon, Ill Dr. Villars is a man Of fine per-
sonal appearance, and q very fluent not to say
eloquent speaker. He is knight OF Labor,
and his theme was the 'Order, its Workings and
never listened
so dangerous nara ngue in my life. Il was not
dangerous in that company or men and women,
but delivered before mixed audience, or an
audience composed largely of suffering
from real or imaginary wrongs. it would have
required the least possible spark to have
ploded the magazine. In his defense of tho
they imply, to the keeping of Eon- union men from
taking the place of strikers. He piously depre-
Gated violence but conceded that in extreme
cases it was inevitable, therefore Unsuitable. for
1ah moi f1o Ssad nv anil tai lii
all orators of his type Ike knew of no laboring
men outside of the guild, and proceeded If
they owned the business world. He justified the
boycott in its most offensive form. because il was
the last resort in many cases. He INDUCED in
the regulation howl against convict labor
Infringement upon the rights of laborng mon,
failing to suggest what he would do with con-
victs. or how the precious laboring could
possibly live il the convlcts all out of
prisons and engaged in honest work The logic
of his speech was that whenever any
man, company of men, carried any
business q scale large enough to
require the employment of another he be-
came capitalist and entity upon whom
laborinR men might legitmately prey. and that
as long as any man worked for wages he was
the knights of Labor Among the remedies he
proposed for the disjointed state of affairs was
that the government should own all railroads
and fix all prices of labor and transportation,
which should be. so adjusted that labor would Z
receive large advance and transportation be
greatly reduced in prices His time was limited
WOufO oXLGQ00Q
cation of this theory to mills and factories,
printing Offices and foundries, shoe shops and
every other class of industry. OF course, ha
gave our system of land ownership an eloquent
denunciation, confessing that he had laid q
claim to /. largo tract of land which he never in
tended to cultivate, yet land grabbers would be
the death of the Nation by becoming the oppres-
sor Of the laboring man. In Short there was
not a dangerous doctrine Of communism that he
did not directly by irresistible logic ad vocate
and defend, though at times he would piously
protest that he was no communist
All of this would be unworthy of notice il DR..
Villars were professional lecturer on tho com.
plicated problem of political economy. He, in
has as good a right as George or .
McGlynn to discuss any question OF the day,
but when it comes to Rev. Isaiah Villars d. D.,
moral and political science, it does make differ
ence. Can the Methodists of Illinois afford to
teach such dangerous doctrine to her young
men2
There were other sentiments promulgated
that grated upon my ear, but none that were
suchdragon's teeth as these. For instance. to-day
one of the normal teachers in the evangelical
work of tie w. T. G. u, taught that the svan-
w. 7. c. u. must in no case consent to tho
OF the meeting by the pastor in
whose church she is holding meetings. Such
teaching can do no harm. If q pastor csn con-
sent to such conditions. it only shows his unfit
ness to manage meeting and he does we'll to
accept the help of one who can. Not 60 when
the youth OF the land arc indoctrnated At college
In communism. U. Il. SEE.
The Closing Session.
CHICAGO. July 18.-Sunday Was . red-letter
day for the convocation at Lake Bluff. The ex-
cessve heat did seem to have any effect on
the enthusiasm or the number Of people at the
meeting A. A Miner, D. D., OF Boston, occu-
pied the morning hour. taking as his theme,
1.-THE Duty Of Citizens to the Government. AS